linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 11/24] pageflag helpers for configed-out flags

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Date:	Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:43:01 -0400
From:	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 11/24] pageflag helpers for configed-out flags

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 16:32 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:28:03 -0400
> Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 13:01 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:42:25 -0400
> > > Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Define proper false/noop inline functions for noreclaim page
> > > > flags when !defined(CONFIG_NORECLAIM_LRU)
> > > 
> > > I changed that to CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU.
> > 
> > I noticed that the vmstat items [perhaps these will go away] still use
> > "noreclaim".
> 
> $ cat /proc/vmstat
> nr_free_pages 3887198
> nr_inactive_anon 5043
> nr_active_anon 2182
> nr_inactive_file 67121
> nr_active_file 49045
> nr_unevictable 0
> nr_mlock 0
> 
> Or am I looking at the wrong thing?

Do you have patch 21/24 applied?  In 26-rc5-mm1, I see the
noreclaim_pgs_* vmstat items.  They're in the patch 21 you just posted,
as well.

Again, we might decide to drop that patch from the merge.  I found the
stats useful during debug and test, but I don't know that they provide
any value in the longer term.

Lee

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